Whether as ‘Gloriana’ or ‘Good Queen Bess’ Elizabeth I is one of England’s most iconic monarchs, but did her gender shape her ...

In 13th-century England excommunication was akin to spiritual leprosy. How did it work?

In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era, Michael ...

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet by Edward Luce and Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of ...

European intelligence agencies assisted Mossad’s Wrath of God assassination campaign, while their governments condemned them.

In the 1970s and 1980s Wimpy faced off with McDonald’s in a battle over what it meant to eat British.

In Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea, Luka Ivan Jukic makes the case for Mitteleuropa as a time that land forgot.

By 1240, it was a fully fledged military order of the Catholic Church (established on the pattern of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller) and its forces were active in many theatres of war, especially ...

On a November night in 1588 Lawrence Jackson stood waiting at the gates of Fawsley Hall, a manor house on the outskirts of Northampton. Housekeeper at Fawsley for more than a decade, he was used to ...

New York City started its glittering history in a modest way as the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. The story begins in 1609 when Henry Hudson, an English sea captain working for Dutch merchants, ...

Wild celebrations erupted in Washington DC on Saturday, September 7th 1850, when the Bill which made California the thirty-first state of the United States was passed by the House of Representatives.

Earl Godwin of Wessex was the most formidable figure in Edward the Confessor’s England. He had first come to prominence as a henchman of Canute and by his well-connected Danish wife he had ...